ISLAMABAD: People of Pakistan, Azad Jammu Kashmir and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir marked ‘Kashmir Black Day’- October 27, 2024 against India for forcibly taking control of State of Jammu and Kashmir.

Kashmir Black Day is commemorated annually on October 27 to mark day in 1947 when India, without any legal justification, forcibly took control of State of Jammu and Kashmir. Day serves as reminder of United Nations resolutions regarding Kashmir dispute.

To show solidarity with people of Indian Held Kashmir on Kashmir Black Day, President Asif Ali Zardari has called upon international community to exert pressure on New Delhi to halt its ongoing human rights abuses in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, alleviate suffering of Kashmiris and implement UN Security Council resolutions.

“Pakistan will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with its Kashmiri brothers and sisters until they achieve their inalienable right to self-determination,” President said in message on ‘Kashmir Black Day’.

He emphasised that United Nations Security Council had repeatedly affirmed right of Kashmiri people to self-determination through fair and impartial plebiscite.

To express solidarity with people of Held Kashmir on Kashmir Black Day, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said Pakistan had always expressed its unwavering solidarity with Kashmiri brothers and sisters and it will continue to extend its full moral, diplomatic and political support to them until final resolution of Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

In his message, he said on this day 77 years ago, Indian forces landed in Srinagar. India has since stifled the legitimate aspirations of the Kashmiri people to determine their own destiny. It has failed to fulfill its obligations under relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

He said India had been taking successive steps to tighten its grip over IIOJK since August 5, 2019. India’s nefarious designs are aimed at undermining disputed status of IIOJK and denying Kashmiri people their democratic right to decide their own future.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 28 2024

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